correcting old sayings that are no longer reflective of society is fine. "blood is thicker than water" is rich when people are getting kicked out of their house for who they are. but you don't have to pretend the saying was *always* something more appropriate to modern times. that's silly

i like to read articles on what the finance world is saying about AI stuff and a month ago it was "[Ross] Gerber said that [AI company] valuations are justified because AI companies promise tremendous growth and their profitability is 'just insane.'" and man people will just believe rich guys huh

probably pete davis, really www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps_k...

today.yougov.com/topics/polit... insanely bleak

thank you google, very cool

Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.

Bombshell ‘Wall Street Journal’ Investigation Finds Tyler Robinson Once Had Trans Uber Driver

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

i cannot imagine what sort of brain leads one to say something like "we are now at a stage where most models have 'genius' IQs and are just 1-2 years away from starting a superintelligence cycle that could make them powerful employees." incredible lack of imagination or general thinking skills

i know if it seems like it suddenly popped up from nowhere it's reasonable to say that "calling it AI is a marketing gimmick" but, like, the actual research that went into this stuff for >50 years has, in fact, been called "AI" the whole time? this is another "please focus on the real problems" post

i'm not sure why my meds have the same order-of-magnitude cost-per-mass as platinum but they sure do (i just paid $400 more than I expected to today)

the US has 3x as many people in it as it did in 1929, when it was decided that there would be exactly 435 seats in the house of representatives. why haven't we increased the number of seats? unironically this is one of the least democratic things we seem to have just accepted as Fact

"do you really expect this thing you've seen hundreds of times to happen again?"

this hypothesis has only gotten stronger.

today was real fun, unironically. i think people should give me their Jankiest Dwarf Fortress Saves so i can play it for 5 seconds and get annoyed by some strange behavior and see if I can fix it more often

video games sure have come a long way since pac-man

So how's GNU Taler doing

paradox, you say

This is definitely one of the more interesting fakes I've seen on the internet, because there's zero skepticism around it being presented as a legitimate Dwarf Fortress screenshot despite absolutely none of it even resembling the game's actual systems in play, even the basic combat log

i don't know who needs to hear this but roguelike and soulslike are literal opposites: the former's about no checkpoints and losing everything when you die and the latter's about lots of checkpoints and losing nothing when you die

i wasn't mean enough to say this when i said "certain people are easily convinced by LLMs" but it is basically what i meant

went and saw rhododendron/origami button/a lot like birds/the fall of troy. very good. so brainrotted by online Music Jokes i thought the lead-in to f.c.p.r.e.m.i.x was gonna be a blueball (it would've been funny to me, at least)

by the way is there a non-mean way to say "acting as a middleman for an LLM is not contributing to the conversation, you're making literally everything worse by doing this"

www.digitalspy.com/tv/ustv/a824... me when i'm such a godawful writer i think that making something coherent enough that people analyzing my work can figure things out from doing so is a bad thing

applying for jobs again

i think people aren't realizing just how incredibly *convincing* current LLMs are to a certain kind of mind--I suspect this is why you hear so much "management is telling us to use AI as much as possible" these days? insanely bad idea, but I can see someone susceptible being convinced

I cannot adequately describe what it feels like to watch your students backslide into illiteracy and forego basic critical thinking skills in real time. If you place the essays I was grading in 2015 versus the ones I get in 2025 it isn’t even close. It’s devastating to watch.

if anything, we're not prepared for just how much some people want an obsequious factotum all to their own

it's not a lack of an algorithm, it's just a different algorithm. remove the discover feed and you will be free. stop using the discover feed. take the discover feed off your bluesky home page. stop using the discover feed. remove the discover feed. leave the discover feed. abandon the discover feed

people talking about stealth archery in oblivion is so funny like stealth archery was genuinely godawful until skyrim but they overbuffed it so hard in skyrim people trying to backport it

wasn't there some debate about this that went something like skeptics: "Many of these NFTs just link to an image hosted elsewhere and are thus subject to link rot. NFTs don't some of the safety claimed. proponents: "nuh uh"

www.reddit.com/r/truegaming... designers mindlessly copied what WoW did in hopes of getting some of that success. why are you calling it holy

annoying everyone i know on discord by going on long rants about how europa's overrated

dwarf fortress

tested myself typing without my index finger (it hurts) and got 97 wpm. "that's odd", i think, "that's reasonably fast. what happens if I type normally?" it's 140 wpm. that's way faster than i used to type. i used to be at like 120. apparently this is actually Extremely Fast, too??

WELCOME BACK MERCANTILISM

welcome back mercantilism

i'm posting a lot on reddit telling people off for confidental asserting that "multiplayer game" automatically means "multiplayer-focused game like nightreign" but like. that doesn't mean i don't think it is. it just means Wait For More Info Because Dark Souls Is Also Multiplayer By Ninty Reckoning

nobody will ever believe me

don't you start thinking that just because C++26 has reflection that i'm not still mad about this

i'm generally completely neutral to various interesting pronunciations but i will never, ever understand "reesees" for reese's

whenever someone calls any countable subset of the reals "floating point" i shrivel up a little. not nearly as much as when people call the reals "floating point", but still

taps the sign

the middle ages was a time of evolving technology that lasted 1000 years in Europe, specifically, and I'm tired of "medieval" being used to mean anything that has full plate armor (they didn't even have full plate armor for most of that time!!)

it feels like there ought to be a better way to be informed your medication has been arbitrarily denied coverage by your insurance after years of coverage besides hearing "that'll be $450" when you pick it up

obviously LLMs got mandela effected from an alternate universe where there *are* two Rs in "strawberry"

hi, it's gamedev. yeah, we do a little screaming around here

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